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I'm going crazy with the Mac stuff again. It feels good to rejuvenate my interest in obsolete technology. I've resurrected "McNugget" as you've all witness from recent posts. Today I've been busy playing with various devices and software. I pulled out my two ethernet cards and as soon as I can find a long-shafted T-15 screwdriver I will open up the case and install an Ethernet card.
In the meantime I'm getting LocalTalk running. I pulled out the GatorBox but I neither have nor have I found the GatorKeeper and GatorInstaller software I need to reset and manage the GatorBox so I can't really put it to use. That's okay. I recently hooked up the landlords' Power Mac to our Ethernet network. The beauty is it has both Ethernet and LocalTalk capabilities so I can ask permission to use their computer as a bridge between the two network topologies if necessary.
I also pulled out my Apple 3.5" Floppy Drive and my Apple Hard Disk 20SC SCSI external hard drive. The floppy works fine with double-sided disks but can only do 400K/800K disks. It will not read disks formatted by the internal drive (naturally) and the inverse is also true. But now I have all floppy formats covered just in case. The SCSI hard drive powers up, HD Setup detects it as SCSI ID 5 but it cannot read/write to disk. I assume the actual drive inside is toast because as I said things powered up and the SCSI ID (set on the drive itself) was determined. I opened up the drive case and found that it is a 5.25" hard drive! It's massive! Fortunately for me the mounting sled has brackets also for a 3.5" hard drive, so if I can find an old 3.5" SCSI hard drive (which I'm sure I can) I can swap it out and hook it back up and have myself a working external drive. I'm thinking either using it to store all of our mp3s to be accessed by any machine on the network (which I will explain in a moment) or installing m68k Linux on it and using the Startup Disk control panel in system 7.1 to essentially make my SE a dual boot server.
And it is a server. I installed AppleShare Server 3.0 tonight, complete with File Server, Print Server and Apple II Server capabilities. That's right. When I get around to replacing my late Apple IIe I can network it and boot it from the SE over the network instead of from a floppy. Handy, eh? So I can use AppleShare Server to serve up those mp3s I mentioned earlier. How will that work with Windows? Because I also have the handy-dandy AppleShare client for Windows installers that came with AppleShare Server to make Windows speak with the Macs. Oh yeah. I can't wait to see if the client software will actually work in XP.
If only I could run a web server on my home network, I would set up my SE to do just that. I wouldn't be the first.
Mac SE Web Server
In the meantime I'm getting LocalTalk running. I pulled out the GatorBox but I neither have nor have I found the GatorKeeper and GatorInstaller software I need to reset and manage the GatorBox so I can't really put it to use. That's okay. I recently hooked up the landlords' Power Mac to our Ethernet network. The beauty is it has both Ethernet and LocalTalk capabilities so I can ask permission to use their computer as a bridge between the two network topologies if necessary.
I also pulled out my Apple 3.5" Floppy Drive and my Apple Hard Disk 20SC SCSI external hard drive. The floppy works fine with double-sided disks but can only do 400K/800K disks. It will not read disks formatted by the internal drive (naturally) and the inverse is also true. But now I have all floppy formats covered just in case. The SCSI hard drive powers up, HD Setup detects it as SCSI ID 5 but it cannot read/write to disk. I assume the actual drive inside is toast because as I said things powered up and the SCSI ID (set on the drive itself) was determined. I opened up the drive case and found that it is a 5.25" hard drive! It's massive! Fortunately for me the mounting sled has brackets also for a 3.5" hard drive, so if I can find an old 3.5" SCSI hard drive (which I'm sure I can) I can swap it out and hook it back up and have myself a working external drive. I'm thinking either using it to store all of our mp3s to be accessed by any machine on the network (which I will explain in a moment) or installing m68k Linux on it and using the Startup Disk control panel in system 7.1 to essentially make my SE a dual boot server.
And it is a server. I installed AppleShare Server 3.0 tonight, complete with File Server, Print Server and Apple II Server capabilities. That's right. When I get around to replacing my late Apple IIe I can network it and boot it from the SE over the network instead of from a floppy. Handy, eh? So I can use AppleShare Server to serve up those mp3s I mentioned earlier. How will that work with Windows? Because I also have the handy-dandy AppleShare client for Windows installers that came with AppleShare Server to make Windows speak with the Macs. Oh yeah. I can't wait to see if the client software will actually work in XP.
If only I could run a web server on my home network, I would set up my SE to do just that. I wouldn't be the first.
Mac SE Web Server
